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This article critically appraises the book "Political Journal of George Bubb Dodington," by J. Carswell and L. Dralle. Originally comprising eight folio notebooks, the "Diary"--part of a larger political archive on deposit at Harvard was supplemented in this edition with first-hand accounts of conversations, drafts of speeches, as well as numerous informative letters from Dodington to prominent correspondents all previously unpublished. Here Dodington's letter confirms what historians have tong suspected: that he was directly involved in these proceedings to the point of actually putting pen to paper, producing and submitting for Bute's inspection the draft of a pamphlet addressing both the German war and the impending peace with France.